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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • https://nestwatch.org/learn/all-about-birdhouses/

    Pausing the woodworking aspect for a second, you might want to take a look at what nesting birds live in your exact area (a bird feeding specialty store can probably give great local advise) and what entrance hole sizes they need. There might be an obvious choice based on what you want to do with the existing hole, and it’ll drive the dimensions and placement of your final birdhouse.

    My dad did a similar project years ago but it rarely got any interest from the birds in his yard - I think the bit of stump, hole size, and direction it faced weren’t a good combination.

    Cool project!


  • I heard about a Chinese rpg that did something similar. The conversations were wide open, and instead of clicking through limited dialog choices, you had to type your responses. You get some guidance on what the purpose of the conversation is, but that’s it. Like: “cheer this person up!”

    I think it’s a cute idea but ultimately too unpredictable using the current generation of LLMs.

    IMO AI is better used as a game design tool than something running live in game. I remember running around so many open world games where it was obvious you had left the area you were meant to be in. Suddenly there’s few monsters, no quests or NPCs, and the least thought given to foliage and landscape decisions. BORING. I feel like that’s a great use of AI - create a non-critical landscape players can continue to explore, even if they won’t make any progress on the main quest/story lines.

    A game studio isn’t going to pay designers to create rich experiences in unnecessary parts of the world, but they should be willing to pay designer to review a region like that and get it into the game.



  • Captain Picard usually tells the replicator “Tea. Earl grey. Hot.” At which point the replicator produces a cup of hot earl grey tea.

    However, in this meme, Captain Picard says “bees” instead of “tea”. Bees are a swarming, flying insect. As a result, instead of tea appearing in the replicator, a swarm of bees appears.

    The humour lies in the fact that a minor substitution in the language of the request drastically changed the resulting situation.